Horticultural apparatus.



` PATENTED JAN. 24,l 1905.

J. UMSFHBND.l HORTIGULTURAL APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED HOVe 4, 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented January 24, 1905.

PATENT-` OFFICE.

HORTICULTURAL APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 780,627, dated January 24, 1905. Application inea November 4, 1904. serial No.' 231,329.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern/.5

Be it known that I, JACOB U MBEHEND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, county of Middlesex, State of Mas-sa-l chusetts, have invented an Improvement in Horticultural Apparatus, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like numerals on the drawings representing like parts.

The object of my present invention is t'o provide a novel device in which flowers may be either grown or exhibited.

Said device comprises a receptacle adapted to contain either earth or lwater, and having an opening in its top and al cover for said opening provided with a plurality of tubular flower-holding members. The receptacle is also provided with. lateral arms which are adapted to support either a trellis-work or a mirror.

If the device is to be used to grow flowers in, thereceptacleis filled with earth and the 'cover removed, said receptacle then operating as a large flower-pot. If the flowers to be grown in the receptacle need a trellis-work to support them, such trellis-work can be detachably secured to the arms.

The-device-may also be used to exhibit cut flowers in horticultural shows by merely iilling the receptacle with water and applying the cover thereto and then inserting the flowers to be exhibited in the tubular iower-holding members, the stems of the iowers passing down through the tubular holding members into the water. When used in this way, I propose to substitute a mirror for the trelliswork, so that the mirrorpwill form the background for the flowers being exhibited.

Referring to the drawings,Figure 1 is a perspective view oi' my improved device Iwhen used as a ower-pot. Fig. 2 is a front view thereof when used to exhibit cut flowers. Fig. 3 is an end View of' Fig. 2. y

The device comprises a receptacle 3,which may have any suitable shape or contour, but is preferably an elongated cylindrical receptacle which has an opening 4 in its upper side. Said receptacle `has pins 5 depending therev from which enter tubular legs 6, onl which the receptacle is supported. Extending laterally y 26, having a groove 27 therein.

fromthe receptacle are two orfmore arms 7, on which either a trellis-work 8 or mirror 9 may be supported, according to the use to which the device is to be put. As illustrated in Fig. 1, the receptacle is filled with earth in which iiowers of any description are growing, said flowers being supported vby the trellis,- work 8. Y

For adapting my improved device for receiving and exhibiting cut flowers I provide a cover 10 of a shape to fit and close the opening 4L, said covering having extending .upwardly therefroma plurality of tubular flowerholding members 11. When thus used to exhibit cut flowers-as, for instance, in horticultural shows-the stems of the flowers 12 to be exhibited are inserted in the tubular iowerholding members 11 and extend into the water 13,with which the receptacle 3 is filled. W henused in this way,'I propose to place a mirror 9 on the arms 7, as above described, said mirror making a pleasing background for the exhibited flowers.

18 designates a coil of pi ping located within Ythe receptacle 3, the ends 19 of said piping extending beyond the receptacle for attachment to a steam orhot-water heating system. By this means the water or the earth in the receptacle may be maintained at any desired temperature.

20 designates arms secured to the receptacle and extending above the same, and 21 is a sprinkler-pipe adapted to be supported by saidarms. Said pipe is provided with a plurality oi' sprinkler-openings 22 and preferably will have an elbow 23 at one end, which leads to a funnel 24. This sprinkler-pipe is especially designed for use when the receptacle has growing flowers therein and is to provide a simple'and'expeditious way of watering the flowers. of watering the. fiowers involves merely filling the funnel 24 with water.

I prefer to provide the coverlO with a rib The groove constitutes a holding device for labels or placards, which may be placed therein to give the name of the iiowers whichV are exhibited vin the flower-holding members.

The receptacle can be made of any size and It will be noted that the operation IOO length and when used for growing iiowers is designed to take the place of the ordinary window-boxes. The device may also be made large enough to set on the lawn in front of the house, and thus constitute a portable iiower-bed.

14 designates a valve by means of which y the water in the receptacle may be drawn orf.

f I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a device of the class described, a receptacle having an opening in its upper side and adapted to be filled with material forsustaining the life of owers, arms projecting laterally from the receptacle, and a background i'or the flowers supported by the arms.

2. In a device of the class described, an elongated receptacle having an elongated opening in 1its upper side, a cover to `close said opening, said cover being provided with tubular fiower-holding members, arms projecting laterally from said receptacle, and a mirror detachably secured to said arms and forming a background for the iiowers supported in the iiower-holding members.

vease? 3. In adevice of the class described, an clon gated receptacle having an elongated opening in its upper side, a cover to close said opening, tubular iiower-holding members carried by said cover, a rib, as 26, having a groove therein also carried by said cover, arms projecting laterally from the receptacle, and a mirror detachabl y secured to said arms and forming a background for the iiowers supported in said flower-holding member.

4. In adevice or' the class described, an elongated receptacle having an openingin its upper side, a cover to close said opening, said cover being provided with tubular iiowerholding members, and a mirror carried by the receptacle and forming a background for the flowers supported in the Iiower-holding members.

5. In a device of the class described, a receptacle having an opening in its upper side and adapted to be filled with material for sustaining the life of iiowers, and a heating-coil Within the receptacle whereby the material therein may be preserved at the proper temperature, combined with a background for the flowers supported by the receptacle.

In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification in 'the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB UMBEHEND.

Witnesses:

Louis C. SMITH, MARGARET A. DUNN. 

